Life Sciences Recruitment and Workforce Solutions

Staffing, HR and employment services

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Employer Services

Hiring in Life Sciences

Our team specialises in contract and direct hire recruiting, connecting businesses with top professionals. From filling long-term positions to scaling teams for short-term projects, Airswift delivers the right talent to support your company’s goals.

Hire permanent staff

Find specialised technical talent that others can't deliver

Our engaged search approach ensures your critical technical roles are filled with qualified specialists who fit your culture and requirements - not just the most available candidates.

Why our approach works:

Discipline-specific recruiters who understand your technical requirements
Research-driven process that goes beyond job boards to find passive candidates
Comprehensive screening ensuring technical and cultural alignment

WHY MAKE YOUR PERMANENT HIRES WITH AIRSWIFT?

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"Airswift did a lot of the heavy lifting for us in that first year. They marketed us to the right people, reaching out to over 5,000 people and helping us hire 26 new employees."

MEG MANLOVE, VP of People & Culture, 8 Rivers

Hire contractors

Accelerate your projects with top-tier contract talent

Our contract hire service provides you with pre-vetted technical specialists for your complex, time-sensitive projects while ensuring full compliance with international employment laws.

Key benefits:

Access to pre-vetted specialists - Integrate high-calibre professionals quickly for complex technical projects
Comprehensive compliance assurance - Navigate international employment laws with confidence
Customisable benefits packages - Attract and retain top talent with location-specific benefits
Full-spectrum support - From onboarding to payroll consultancy to and contractor care

WHY MAKE YOUR CONTRACT HIRES WITH AIRSWIFT?

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"Airswift provided excellent service throughout the entire recruitment process for several technical positions. Candidate shortlists were assembled in good time and had strong tech backgrounds. The new colleagues have the in-depth knowledge and ability to positively impact our business."

Global VP of Business Development, Multinational Technology Conglomerate

Executive & Board Search

Strategic leadership for technical organisations

Finding the right technical leaders is critical to achieving your financial, strategic, and commercial goals. Our executive search team, led by industry specialists, focuses on sourcing C-suite leaders who can transform your technical organisation.

Our approach:

In-depth industry analysis – Understand your specific market challenges
Comprehensive candidate assessment – Looking beyond technical skills to leadership capabilities
Extensive due diligence – Thorough background verification and reference checking
Long-term success partnering – Supporting both client and candidate throughout the onboarding process

WHY MAKE YOUR EXECUTIVE HIRES WITH AIRSWIFT?

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"Airswift has officially refreshed our faith in recruiters. They helped fill a critical leadership role and exceeded expectations with their professionalism, collaboration and communication. The feedback from the candidates was tremendous. The only difficult part was selecting the final candidate because the calibre of talent we interviewed was exceptional."

Vice President, People & Culture, CDN Controls

Managed Service Provider (Vendor Management)

Optimise your entire technical workforce strategy

Our Managed Service Provider solution, delivered by Airswift Resourcing, helps you control costs, ensure compliance, and improve quality across your entire contingent workforce.

What we deliver:

Vendor management - Consolidate and optimise your recruitment support chain
Rate card management - Ensure consistent and competitive pricing
Technology platform - Streamline requisition, onboarding, and reporting
Compliance oversight - Mitigate risks across your entire contingent workforce
Data analytics - Gain insights to continuously improve workforce strategy

WHY CHOOSE AIRSWIFT RESOURCING AS YOUR MSP?

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"Having access to skilled contingent talent is essential to deliver to our clients. Partnering with Airswift has transformed how we manage our contingent workforce. Their MSP model has streamlined our recruitment process, giving us access to a vetted network of specialist agencies, real-time visibility into hiring metrics, and full compliance with IR35 and other regulatory requirements. This has improved our time-to-hire and also ensured we're engaging the right talent, at the right time, with the right controls in place. Airswift has helped us build a more agile, scalable workforce strategy."

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Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)

Streamline your entire hiring process

Our Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) service acts as an extension of your HR team, managing the complete recruitment lifecycle of permanent hires from sourcing to onboarding. Our comprehensive approach accelerates hiring timelines, reduces costs, and gives you access to hard-to-find technical talent.

Key Benefits:

Optimised recruitment process - Centralise your permanent talent acquisition and eliminate the complexities of managing multiple
agencies
Sustainable cost reduction - Identify opportunities to improve workforce management without sacrificing quality
Specialised technical expertise - Access recruiters who genuinely understand complex STEM roles and can effectively evaluate specialised qualifications
Scalable solutions - Adapt quickly to changing project demands and new market entries with customisable recruitment support

WHY CHOOSE AIRSWIFT RESOURCING AS YOUR RPO PROVIDER?

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"Airswift Resourcing's solution is one of the energy, process, and infrastructure industries' deepest and most forward-thinking. Across the globe, they have consistently delivered high-touch, innovative, and Best-in-Class services to drive talent sustainability and help their partners compete in a skills-based, people-centric enterprise arena."

CHRISTOPHER J. DWYER, SVP of Research, Ardent Partners

Employer of Record

Expand globally without legal entity establishment

When you need to hire technical talent in regions where you don't have a
legal presence, our Employer of Record service provides a fully compliant
solution with none of the administrative burden.

Complete global employment solution:

Legal compliance - Eliminate the need to establish legal entities
Payroll & benefits administration - Ensure competitive, locally-compliant compensation
Immigration support - Navigate complex visa and work permit requirements
Risk mitigation - Transfer employment liabilities to Airswift
Rapid deployment - Enter new markets in days, not months

WHY USE AIRSWIFT AS YOUR EMPLOYER OF RECORD?

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"I have always found Airswift to be very responsive, helpful, and knowledgeable. We have used Airswift specifically to facilitate talent needs in countries where we have not had an entity or where we have needed specific workforce assistance that Airswift can provide."

Worley

Life Sciences jobs filled globally

Countries where we have hired

Different disciplines we recruit for

We specialise in staffing and HR services for life sciences, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology

Airswift’s workforce solutions experts are agile and provide life sciences companies with speed and mobility to find them the best talent through our global talent pools. We’re passionate about creating effective talent pipelines for life sciences companies and helping skilled workers find jobs that fit them and their abilities.

Electrical Designer - Engineering & Design - Life Science - Muscatine, United States

We were tasked with sourcing an Electrical Designer for a life sciences facility in Muscatine, IA. The role required expertise in electrical and instrumentation system design, capable of producing complex engineering drawings and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

We identified a candidate with a strong background in industrial and process environments. They excelled in preparing electrical schematics, drafting as-built documentation, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Their work streamlined project execution, ensuring safe, compliant, and reliable systems, enhancing the quality and efficiency of engineering deliverables throughout the assignment.

Principal Consultant - Engineering & Design - Life Science - Brentford, Germany

A leading engineering firm in the life sciences sector needed a radiological/NORM Principal Consultant for projects across the UK and Europe. The role required expertise in radiological consulting, technical report development for EIAs and ESDDs, and peer reviewing sub-contractor deliverables, ensuring compliance with quality and OH&S standards.

We identified a candidate with extensive radiological and NORM consultancy experience, strong environmental management planning skills, and deep regulatory knowledge in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. They enhanced risk assessment frameworks, streamlined reporting, and improved site auditing, ensuring safe, efficient project delivery in critical healthcare and scientific environments.

Why choose Airswift?

Airswift is the staffing agency of choice for world-leading businesses.

Our connected infrastructure ensures unique project insights and agile talent acquisition. Whatever the project, we can help find and mobilise the best onshore and offshore talent.

Our talented life science recruitment specialists are visible across the globe through Airswift’s 60 offices based in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Caspian region, North and Latin America.

We’re proud of our 96% contractor satisfaction rate, and we can help you build a life science recruitment strategy designed to complement your wider growth strategy.

I have always found Airswift to be very responsive, helpful and knowledgeable. We have used Airswift specifically to facilitate talent needs in countries where we have not had an entity or where we have had a need for specific workforce assistance that Airswift can provide.

Airswift have been extremely helpful to me and the Chamber Board in supporting Chamber activities and indeed have offered us great support with projects for our wider clientele. We hold the team at Airswift in high regard for their professionalism and diligence, but more importantly for the friendliness and willingness that they have shown towards us.

They successfully sourced, onboarded and managed a large workforce. Airswift's local knowledge and experience in the UAE market, combined with an intertwined cross-regional approach to project support, have been vital in ensuring the success of the project to date.

The person I dealt with was a stand out because they were extremely helpful and efficient in getting information so quickly. They have been very warm, gracious and professional.

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